SUMMARY:

• 10 Plus years of experience as SAP SCM Consultant (Implementation, Configuration and Support). With good exposure in the areas of Enterprise structure, master data, configuration and business process procedures of different functional areas of SAP APO, IBP, Ariba & ECC.
• Supported all phases of a project life cycle including analysis, blue print design, development, testing, implementation, ELS and post implementation support, roll outs and enhancements.
• Experienced in addressing day - to-day business process needs, production and implementation issues and customizing/configuring new business process objects in a Production Support role.
• ITIL Foundation V3 certified and expertise in incident, change and problem management process, proficient on ticketing tools.
• SAFE Practitioner (Scaled agile) certified.
• Configured IBP Planning objects (Attributes, master data types, Time Profiles, Planning Area, Planning levels and Key figures)
• Implemented Master data integration between ECC and IBP via SDI and HCI.
• Implemented Transactional data process between ECC/APO and IBP via HCI.
• Implemented end to end solution for Ariba Integration with IBP for forecast collaboration (Forecast sent to supplier, commit from supplier and publish data to ECC to create Purchase requisitions).
• Configured data process model (Planning operators, Application job templets, Application jobs)
• Configured process templets, Process instances and dashboard.
• Configured Stat forecast model for Stat SKU & KPI Indicators for measuring the forecast.
• Configured visibility filters for Ariba vendor & mapping cXML for forecast collaboration.
• Implemented Tasks/Process in HCI for master data and transactions Integration between IBP, ECC, APO and BW.
• Created pre-defined excel templets for planning & designed security roles to manage the access for IT & Business users.
• Experienced in excel VBA coding/macro building.
• APO Support for DP, SNP & GATP (CPS, CTO, ATO & Direct ship process)
• Demand Planning: Setting up MPOS, CVC, PA, PB, and DV’s and implemented technical periods.
• Setup of master forecast profiles (Forecast accuracy testing and error calculation analysis)
• Created complex macros to meet the business requirements, Configuring Lifecycle planning, promotional planning, Realignment, Release the forecast with splits and proportions.
• Background processing - Activities, jobs, process chains creation.
• Supply Network Planning: Setup master data for SNP using CIF and configuration, Transportation lanes, PDS and Quota Arrangements, Safety Stock Planning, Shelf life planning and SNP Aggregate planning & forecast consumption at Aggregate product/location level.
• Heuristics Run (Location, Network and multi network).
• GATP Configuration, setting up the master data based on the process.
• Basic product availability check, product allocation.
• RBA, MATP and Back order processing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Supply Chain SE

Responsibilities:

• SAP IBP/APO & Ariba
• Configure suppliers in ECC/Ariba network (Ariba Supplier portal and Buyer portal).
• PO, ASN and GR collaboration between ECC and Ariba.
• Forecast collaboration () config and testing with APO.
• Inventory/PO/MO data feed from contract manufacture to APO and max system.
• Onboarding Confidential vendors on Ariba platform,
• Configured IBP Planning objects (Attributes, master data types, Time Profiles, Planning Area, Planning levels and Key figures)
• Implemented Master data integration between ECC and IBP via SDI and HCI.
• Implemented Transactional data process between ECC/APO and IBP via HCI.
• Implemented demand planning end to end solution in IBP.
• Implemented end to end solution for Ariba Integration with IBP for forecast collaboration (Forecast sent to supplier, commit from supplier and publish data to ECC to create Purchase requisitions).
• Configured data process model (Planning operators, Application job templets, Application jobs)
• Configured process templets, Process instances and dashboard.
• Configured Stat forecast model for Stat SKU & KPI Indicators for measuring the forecast.
• Configured visibility filters for Ariba vendor & mapping cXML for forecast collaboration.
• Implemented Tasks/Process in HCI for master data and transactions Integration between IBP, ECC, APO and BW.
• Created pre-defined excel templets for planning & designed security roles to manage the access for IT & Business users.
• Experienced in excel VBA coding/macro building.
• Responsible for Production system configuration for DP & RNS go-live and post go-live production support ie, System monitoring (jobs & Interfaces), user training, issue resolution.
• APO Support for DP, SNP & GATP (CPS, CTO, ATO & Direct ship process)

Confidential

SCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created blue print document for Thailand SCM rollout.
• Added new key figures in DP PA, PB and DV as per business requirements and implemented necessary macros to calculate the key figures data.
• SNP heuristic, SNP deployment heuristic configurations.
• Implemented SNP Shelf life calculation and immunity wastage alerts.
• Implemented DP Net forecast calculation macros to give accurate forecast to SNP.
• Implemented SNP days’ supply excluding distribution demand macro.
• Crated new process chains for new plants and DC’s.
• Created test scripts, performed Unit testing and integration testing with Business users.
• Pre and post go-live activities and ELS support.
• Resolving the DP, SNP and PPDS issues as per SLA.

Confidential

Tech Arch, Sr. Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Root cause identification for data mismatch between APO live cache and BW BEX reports.
• Implemented the collective macros to meet the business requirements.
• Created new PA, PB, DV and macros to manipulate the 7 days shipment history data to 5 days history data.
• Application support for DP, SNP and PPDS modules like Job monitoring and SCM planning cycle monitoring.
• Implemented transportation lane mass upload tool.
• Implemented realignment customization (perform realignment at BW and transfer the data back to APO)
• Implemented forecast generation and safety stock calculation at 3rd party server (optilon) to get accurate forecast and reloading into DP kef figure
• Resolving the issues as per SLA and performing daily housekeeping activities.

Confidential

SCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented data load interfaces between Hovies server (legacy) and SCM server via flat file through FTP.
• Implemented aggregated planning in SNP to generate the accumulated plan (product parent-child relationship).
• Master data Set-up: product, location, product location master, transportation lanes, PDS, create and activate CIF integration models.
• Configured the shelf life planning and VMI process configuration
• Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics and deployment.
• Creating test scenarios, manage testing, and develop user documents and training of new process

Confidential

SCM Functional Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created master planning object structures, planning area, characteristic value combination master data, storage bucket profile and planning bucket profile for monthly buckets and weekly buckets.
• Creation and maintenance of planning books, data views.
• Interactive planning using data views and macros.
• Maintenance and tested forecast profile with testing various scenarios that included promotions and like-profile modeling.
• Realignment, life cycle planning and proportional factors.
• Maintaining release profiles, period split profile, product split profile and distribution functions.
• Mass processing activities like background jobs and process chains monitoring and find the Master data issue and inform to business.
• Administrator work bench in APO including creating info areas, info catalogs, custom characteristics and key figures; creating info cubes and their update rules; creating application components and info sources for both transaction data and master data and assigning data sources and creating info package.
• Created complex macros to meet business requirements and macro alerts and DP technical bucket data views.
• Maintained CIF integration models for master and transaction data transfer between ECC and APO, CCR of transactional data to compare the transaction data between ECC and APO.
• Planning books, data view, time bucket profile, storage bucket profile.
• Master data Set-up: product, location, product location master, transportation lanes, PDS.
• Created and maintain quota arrangements.
• Performed SNP runs using SNP heuristics, created cost and optimization profile for SNP optimizer.
• Set up the deployment heuristic and created deployment optimization profile.
• Create and assign TLB profile and lot size profile to transportation lane.
• Resolve issues logged, perform problem analysis to identify root cause, and to suggest improvement plan

Confidential

Environment: IBM AS400 (iSeries)

Responsibilities:

• Created Interface design document between Confidential SAP server and Solar (As400) system.
• Created Functional and technical specifications for data exchange through flat file via FTP.
• Created new interfaces between ECC and AS400 to exchange the order and inventory data.
• Created test scripts and performed Unit testing and integration testing.
• Pre and post go live activities and ELS support.

Confidential

Environment: IBM AS400 (iSeries)

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the requirement and providing the technical feasible solution.
• Preparing SIP and analyze the issues and do the bug fixes.
• Proactively monitor the interfaces and fix the issues.
• Preparing the process documents for server outages (IPL, Failover & fail back and others).
• First point of contact on server outages from Application side to manages the activities like start/stop the interface jobs and hold the jobs as required and rerun it once outage completed.
• Solving the tickets on SLA basis.
• Giving the on-call support on out of office hours for P1 tickets.
• Automating the manual works which support team will perform on daily basis.